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UENO Chizuko
This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "most famous feminist", Chizuko Ueno. A discursive...

BEFU Harumi
Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain...

OGUMA Eiji
This book presents a counter-argument to the Japanese belief that they are a homogeneous nation...

OGUMA Eiji
The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for centuries in the island chain that...

HIROTA Noboru
Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has...

FILLER Stephen, MARUYAMA Satomi
Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the...

SUDO Noriko, TANIKAWA Takeshi
This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in East...

YOSHIMOTO Hideko
Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persuade the local...
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$35.95
KAJIMARU Gaku, Caitlin Coker, KAZAMA Kazuhiro
Do places influence human behavior? In everyday...Do places influence human behavior? In everyday thinking, spaces and places are generally seen as empty vessels where human activity occurs. Digging a bit deeper, we can distinguish spaces from pla... -
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$398.00NAKAYAMA Shigeru
Order all four-books together for "A Social His...Order all four-books together for "A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan" which documents the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology from post-war devastati... -
$34.95
SHIMAZONO Susumu
Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost socio...Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost sociologists of religion, deals with the development of popular religious and spiritual movements in Japan in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. A... -
$69.95
KOHAMA Masako, Linda Grove
How have femininity and masculinity been define...How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in China from prehistoric times to the present day? Gender History in China presents for the first time in English the work of leadi... -
$79.95
AOYAMA Waka
This work offers a comprehensive description of...This work offers a comprehensive description of the lives of the Sama-Bajau people based on ongoing ethnographic research conducted by the author in Davao City, the Philippines, for over two decade... -
$34.95
KYUMA Kazutake
This book is an important reference for those c...This book is an important reference for those concerned with the continuing sustainability of wet rice agriculture, which remains the staple diet for most people throughout Asia. Kazutake Kyuma dra... -
$45.75
ONIMARU Takeshi
The European and Japanese empires that colonize...The European and Japanese empires that colonized much of Asia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries faced numerous challenges in public health and social order. They sought to prevent dis... -
$32.09
KUSAKA Wataru, IGA Tsukasa, AOYAMA Kaoru, TAMURA Tsuji Keiko
This is the comparative study of the politics s...This is the comparative study of the politics surrounding gender and sexual minorities in Asia, which sheds light on the diverse indigenous identities and sexualities of Asia, examining cases in In... -
$49.95
OKAMOTO Masaaki
After a swift and bloody regime change in 1998,...After a swift and bloody regime change in 1998, Indonesia established democratic institutions. Democratization over the first two decades of the 21st century fundamentally transformed Indonesia as ... -
$59.95
SODA Naoki
Conceptualizing the Malay World explores the in...Conceptualizing the Malay World explores the interrelations between the indigenization of "colonial knowledge" and the quest for pan-Malay identity in Malaya. In what way, to what extent and for wh... -
$39.95
SUDO Noriko, TANIKAWA Takeshi
This book examines the interdependent relations...This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in East Asia, treating films as political economic products, mixtures of government policy and industrial... -
$84.85
YASUOKA Kenichi
Japan's national identity associates the 'Japan...Japan's national identity associates the 'Japanese people' with the Japanese land, making the farmer the backbone of the nation. Others in Japanese Agriculture challenges this mythology, revealing ...